Microgrids can help close this gap.

The Microgrid Investment Accelerator (MIA) invests in clean energy microgrid companies serving markets with significant energy poverty across Africa and India. MIA is a catalytic investment fund that provides early-stage, risk-tolerant capital to clean energy microgrid developers in order to drive scaled deployment towards commercial viability of microgrids. MIA does this through a flexible investment approach that includes venture debt and preferred or hybrid equity investments that help unlock other pools of funding, such as corporate equity and project-level asset finance.

MIA has been seed funded by Facebook and has a target capitalization of $25 Million.

Catalyze Capital

Blend Different Types of Capital

MIA is a blended capital fund that leverages grant and concessionary finance from corporations, philanthropies, family offices, and governments to mobilize private sector capital into renewable energy microgrid projects, with a specific focus on energy access.

Scale the Market

in Africa and India

MIA will help project developers scale their businesses and drive towards commerciality through direct provision of corporate and project-level debt and equity and taking high-risk positions in the capital stac

Build the Ecosystem

Provide targeted MIcrogrid financing

MIA will support the microgrid finance ecosystem through a network of partnerships with governments, philanthropies and private and institutional capital providers.

Make the Business Case

insights based on REAL WORLD data

MIA will help advance the commercial business case for microgrid investment through rigorous data collection, management, and analysis. As much data as possible from the fund will be made publicly available.